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Spalding-Peterson Expedition : field catalogue (Australia + New Guinea)

by: Peterson, Russell Francis; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection; American Museum of Natural History; Spalding-Peterson Expedition (1959)

Publication date: 1959

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Topics: Mammals, Description and travel, Travel, Scientific expeditions, Peterson, Russell Francis, Spalding-Peterson Expedition (1959), Scientific expeditions, Scientific expeditions

Collection: fieldnotesclir2016; biodiversity; americanmuseumnaturalhistory; amnhfieldbooks

Contributor: American Museum of Natural History Library

Language: English

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Rights-holder: American Museum of Natural History Library

Pen and pencil in spiral bound notebook

Numbered pages are marked on verso

Field collection catalog of mainly mammals for dates May 21 to August 17, 1959 while Peterson acted as zoologist on the Spalding-Peterson Expedition. This expedition aimed to complete the collection work begun during the 5th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Information listed is field number, name, sex, date, locality, museum catalogue number (added later); elevation, measurements and notes. Field numbers 0001-0458 are included in the catalog. At rear of volume are tallied lists of specimens organized by both species and type of storage. Locations in both Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea include Koombooloomba, Chillagoe, Mt. Garnet, Einasleigh, Karumba, Mungana, Lappa Junction, Nondugl, Mt. Hagen, Port Moresby, and Clump Point

Part of AMNH Mammalogy Departmental Library and Archives

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant

Abstract: Field collection catalog of mainly mammals for dates May 21 to August 17, 1959 while Peterson acted as zoologist on the Spalding-Peterson Expedition. This expedition aimed to complete the collection work begun during the 5th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. Information listed is field number, name, sex, date, locality, museum catalogue number (added later); elevation, measurements and notes. Field numbers 0001-0458 are included in the catalog. At rear of volume are tallied lists of specimens organized by both species and type of storage. Locations in both Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea include Koombooloomba, Chillagoe, Mt. Garnet, Einasleigh, Karumba, Mungana, Lappa Junction, Nondugl, Mt. Hagen, Port Moresby, and Clump Point.